“He wasn’t arguing with anybody and he didn’t seem agitated,” a Houston police spokeswoman told The New York Post after the bizarre incident. “He just peed on the candy. Skittles, I think.”

Mr. Durst, 71, has made headlines in the past for running from the law and, notoriously, for facing trial for murder. In 2001, he was arrested as a fugitive and admitted to killing his neighbor, Morris Black, in self-defense. He had dismembered Black’s body and disposed of the remains in Galveston Bay. Mr. Durst’s acquittal in 2003 came nearly 20 years after the unsolved disappearance of his wife, Kathleen McCormack, and a related “execution-style” murder in 1982. But his real estate investments seem unaffected by his troubled judgment in other areas. Earlier this year, he sold two Brooklyn buildings for $21.2 million—a venture where he doubled his investment in three years. (Mr. Durst’s 2011 acquisitions of 250 Pacific Street and 234 Union Avenue in Brooklyn were financed by New York Community Bank and refinanced by Customers Bank in 2013, public records show).

Mortgage Observer looks back at some odd quotes and curious moments of silence from the Texas millionaire.

“I’d like to talk to you about how great the properties are … but now is not the time. … I’ve got a lot of s— going on right now, and I’m not going to talk about it with a reporter.”